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"*". e"/ ,7( A _ , _ :r. ~ t ~ v c',// c) N UMBER 10,493. T, a MEETING of the Friends to Mr. Alder man WOOD, M.P. held at the Paul's head, Cateaton ittreet, on WEDNESDAY, April 26, 1820. WILLIAM SMITH, Esq. M.P. in the Chair, It was moved by JOHN MABERLY, Esq. M.P., and se; conded by RICHARD SHARPE, Esq . ., and Unanimously Resolved, That this Meeting are convinced that at all times, and espe. cially in the present state of Commercial and Public Affairs, it is,expedient that the Representatives of the City of London in Parliament should be Citizens of unblemished character—. conversant with the Rights of the Corporation and disposed to Maintain them—possessing local information, as well as com mercial experience—and undoubted in attachment to Freedom, Economy, and Reform. That the commercial knowledge, personal character, and pub• lic conduct of Mr. Alderman Wood, prove his possession of the qualifications required—and that his benevolent and un wearied efforts to effect local improvements —to promote the edtt tatimi of the poor, and mitigate distress—to extend the circula tion of the Scriptures—to lessen the aggregate of individual and bocial calamity—entitle him to the approbation of all philan thropic and enlightened men, That his claims to respect are thereased bythe indefatigable, 'ltseful, and liberal manner in which he has long and habitu a l. 17 acted as a Member of the Corporation—and in which he ful filled the duties of Sheriff, Alderman, and Lord Mayor—by his intimat e k no wl e d ge o f t h e i nterests o f t h e C or p ora ti o n— an d fits able, persevering, and resolute attention to their ancient and i mEortant rights. '!'hat, as the Parliamentary Representative of the City in Four Parliaments, his general conduct has equalled all the ex pectations of his friends, and entitles him to praise and sup- Port. That his true loyalty, his love of liberty, his resistance to inordinate taxation, and every needless expence—his acces sibility to his Constituents—his punctual attendance—his intle- Pendent though conciliatory spirit—and his co-operation in every attempt to promote Public Improvement, justify the con fidence he has so long enjoyed, and deserve not only unabated kindness, but even augmented regard. That this Meeting therefore earnestly desires the re-election of Mr. Alderman Wood, on the dissolution of Parliament, that they will form a general Committee, with power to add to their number, to canvass the Livery on his behalf, and that they respectfully intreat from their fellow Citizens the favour of their co-operation and local influence, as well as any useful information that can be supplied, and addressed to John Pul len, Esq. Deputy, at the Baptist Head, Aldermanbury, and which may assist their labours, and promote success. WILLIAM SMITH, Chairman. The Chairman having vacated the Chair, and the same being Men by John Maberly, Esq. ALP., it was proposed by John Martin, Esq. M.P., and seconded by Richard Sanderson, Esq. and resolved unanimously, That this meeting cheerfully express their thanks to William Smith, Esq. M.P., their respected and excellent Fellow Citi zen, who has presided on this occasion, and whose private di . meter and public conduct increase their gratitude for his at tendance at the meeting, and their pleasure at his continued po suprt. T() THE WORTHY AND 'INDEPENDENT LIVERY OF LONDON. GENTLEMEN, Encouraged by the Resolutions of a numerous and respect able Meeting of my Friends, and by universal expressions of kindness and good will, I again, and for the Nerd) tune, re spectfully offer myself as a Candidate at the approaching Elec tion for the honour of Representing this City in Parliament. As you have so long and often distinguished me by your f a v our it - cannot be needful that I should make any profession of my Principles, or occupy your attention by many promises, as to the conduct I intend to pursue. It is my pleasure and my "pride that, during the long period I have been dignified by Your confidence, I have never given a vote that could increase the burdens or diminish the Freedom or Glory of our Native Land, Th e same true Loyalty—the same love to the sacred principles of Liberty, the same attachment to your Corporate ights, the same solicitude for our Commercial Prosperity, and the welfare of every class of the Community, and the same ac tivity of exertion, and independence of mind, which I have hitherto manifotted, I shall with unabated ardour, through my life, continue to evince. Allow me, therefore, to hope tin. your persevering attachment, and to entreat that you will cheer and ho lour me with that general and continued support, which I .have endeavoured to merit, and shall ever rejoice to obtain, and believe me to remain, Gentlemen, Your faithful, obliged, and devoted . Servant, MATTHEW WOOD. 77, South Audley-street, April 28, 1028. FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 28, 1826. FOREIGN CORN. INSTRUCTIONS TO MR. JACOB, RESPECTING lIIE PRICES OF FOREIGN CORN. [Continued from our paper of yesterday.l Accounts of the quantities of corn in .store at Memel could not be procured ; and in the absence of better means of form ing an opinion, I have compared the trade of exporting corn at Memel with that at Elbing, and find that in a series of years the exports of wheat and rye together, frOm the latter port, have been about double that at the former. I scarcely know if it be fair to infer that the accumulated stack bears the same propor tion to the annual returns. •If so, the stock on hand must be but small. I can only judge of the ..,stocks accumulated in Riga and Pe tersburgh b y comparing thei r t ra d e in wheat , for a series of years, with that of Dantzie and Elbing. The exports have not been larger than those of Elbing, and it is prObable their stocks to gether do not exceed those of that port. In the absence of all definite information, and trusting to ths..,. reports I. received, I should be disposed to think, that in ttie see ports , of Memel, Riga, and Petershurgh, th ere were not I Ck i ,ooo quarters of wlelt, in August, when I was at Dautzic. The state of the stock of corn at Lubeck, with the prices for .the last eleven years, are shown in the Appendix, No. 83. It appears that the wheat in stote there was 29,900 quarters. . Some small stocks may have been collected f►om the territo ries of the Duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin, and accumulated in the ports of Rostock and Wismar. .1 have no information of the quantity, but sho►►ld not be dispos►d to judge from the general trade of those places, that more than a few thousand quarte.rs Were to be found in them. The greater part of the surplus corn of Mecklenburg finds a vent by Hamburgh, and is included in the imports, from the interior, of that city. The acc►ss to the Elhc from all the southern ports of the duchy is easier than to the Baltic ; the freight, from thence to foreign markets is lower, and the passage shorter. It Is, in fact, only front' the northern division of the duchy that the wheat Snag a vent through its ow►► ports.. . _ _ - Although not within the Baltic, nor within the limits of my late journey, yet the wheat which descends by the rivers Wesef and Elbe have too much influence on the general corn trade to be overlooked in this estimate of the stocks on hand. The whe:4 stored at Bremen comes by the Weser, chiefly out of the duchy of Brunswick, though some of it is grown in Hanover; and when the prices are very high, supplies are con veyed from Hesse Cassel, and even • froM some of the western districts of the Saxon duchies through Mundell. That from Brunswick is of a moderate quality, but much of the other is very bad , and only fit for the English market in times of very great scarcity. The stock in the granaries at .Bremen, in the latter eud of De cember last, consisted of 27,972 quarters. of wheat and other corn, as is shown in the Appendix No. 34. Hamburgh. is an important depot for corn, of some that is brought from Russian and other ports in .the Baltic, as well as for the surplus of the teveral countries through which the Elbe in its long course is directed. Prussia, especially near Magdeburg, is a great corn country ; but thechief grain cultivated in that division is rye. In the kingdom of Saxony, as well as in the Prussian pro vince of that flame, the quantity of rye very far exceeds the wheat, both in quality and quantity. - In the years when prices are very high, the wheat of Bohemia comes down the river to Hamburgh; but the expellee of conveyance, the length of the navigation, and the loss to which it is subject, act as a prohibition; except in seasons of great scarcity. The freight from Prague to Hamburg is 12s. per quarter, and the tolls to the several sovereigns, through whose dominions the river runs, is 3s. .6d. The commissions and other 1 • charges amount to near Is. Cid. more., From the shipping places below the Prazue the freight is lower; but the wheat grown near them is - said not to he of so good a quality as that from the vicinity of that city, and the di3tricts to the south of it. The export trade in wheat of Hamburgh by sea, appears during the last ten years 14) have reached an annual average of 48,268 ' quarters ; the greater part of the corn imported there being for the Consumption of the city and the surrounding territory belong ing to it. In the Appendix. No. 31, is seen the course of the trade, the prices of all corn for the last 10 years, the prices of wheat from 1791 to 1822, and the stock about 100,000 quarters, as taken at the two periods in the last year. Although the price of wheat as well us other grain, is very low in Denmark, yet the surplus quantity is very small; and the de pressed prices may he in a great measure attributed to the restric tions upon Danish corn in the dominions of Prussia, its nearest and most popular neighbour. The wheat exported from the whole kingdom, in, the six months which followed the abundant harvest of 1824, is 'seen in the Appendix,. No. 35, to have been 117,561 quarters. By that account it appears that More than half the the wheat was front the provinces of Holstein and Sleswick, which are in close contact with Hambrirgh. In the market return of prices from that city, the wheat of Holstein forms one of the quotations ; it is then fair to conclude, that a portion of the wheat exported from Holstein, if not from Sleswick, is that which nib- Siequently becomes a part of that which is included in the exports and stock of Hamburgh. I should much doubt if the whole quantity of wheat in store in October last, in the kingdom of Den mark, amounted to 20,000 quarters. .These are the returns of the several places mentioned in the months of August and September, before the corn of the last harvest had made its appearance in the markets. -1 had reason, from all my inquiries, both among Cultivators and merchants, to conclude that very little corn remained in the hands of the growers, except in the very rare cases, where in the same person was united a confident expectation of •an advance in the prices with a. sufficiency of capital to enable hiM to withhold from mak ing sales. - The circumstances of far the greater number of the occupiers of land were too much embarrassed to allow 'of their keeping .corn, When the importunities of claimants upon them were ur gent for the discharge of their deinands. The general accounts were, that all which could be sold hail, from necessity, been turned into money. In some of the small tOWII9 in Prussia, when movements of the troops were making, and a squadron of cavalry on a marc h was quartere d on t h em f or a d a y, so little horse corn was to be found in the granaries, that the stand ing oats were cut and given to the horses, as they were taken .from the fields. When in Berlin, I was told by Baron Von Bulow, Minister of the Interior, that the Government had recently instituted in quiries into the stocks of corn in the country, and the result of those inquiries showed, that the quantity in the whole of Prussia was much smaller than usual. A very intelligent writer, a part of whose memoir, see Appen dix, No. 9, I have translated, states the whole quantity of corn in the different counties of Europe, at 3,680,000 quarters. Ile includes in his estimate rye, oats, and barley, as well as wheat, noticing the portions of each, which make up his total. With out attaching any great credit to the calculation, I allude to it because his views are those which I found commonly entertained among the more intelligent cultivators, of whom, though writing anonymously, he was said to be one. I made it my particular business to inquire into the state of the stocks at the warehouses on the banks of the Vistula, where corn is collected, until a auffieiency of one quality is accumu lated to load a veriel. In former tittles, as I was informed, these Mores used to have a large quantity placed in them when the wa ter was low, to be:reatly to take advantage of the first autumnal rain.s The water was low when I wail in Poland, front the long drought end great heat of the season ; few or no vessels were na vigating on the upper part of the river, and yet the store-houses on the banks were empty. At Warsaw there are large warehouses, but in them there were not 200 quarters of wheat. At Pulaway is a large machine, capable of storing, and adapted for keeping in good order, 6,000 quarter* of Wheat ; but it did not contain a single bushel. At Gassimir there are several large warehouses, some of them from having had no business of any extent during the last four years, seemed to be in need of repairs. Others were, however, in good condition. The whole are capable of storing 60,000 quarters of corn. _ _ In none of them was any wheat, though they contained rye belonging to the Go vernment , which its agents had recei ve d for rent ßa and gho w taxes ku , from war cultivators tor vators who gto rtacog 14,000 quart ers , b ut inald not i m y money. . . . . • . • f • . /1044 - • s s 4 • 0 ,41, A) • . V • , 4 1144 ' 1 • c.? vrlr" • - ° . e 4 .ca 1f 4,• 1 ? •' , , t • , • * I ( Are : $ .tl '. 11111341 ..*. ,1! ' 0 " 000 OaTti them Was neither wheat riot any other corn to be found. At Cracow the case was the same; the warehouses which are exten sive were empty. The places I have noticed are the chief, where there are ferries over the river, and to -which the roads front the surrounding districts lead. They are the most convenient for shipping goods, and most of the trade is dispatched from them. There are a few others of smaller moment, which I did not visit, and only, on hearsay, know that they are alike without wheat. From the view I have thus taken, lam led to the conviction that neither in the sea ports, front which wheat is usually ship ped, nor in the interior of the countries where it is grown, was there a stock which, if removed to the sea ports, would increase the amount of what is collected there to any sensible extent There is an accumulation in the Russian provinces of Podolia and Volhynia, which was reported to me to have been stored in caves under ground, containing four or five years' growth. Owing to the situation of these provi n c e s a nd the difficulties and expences of conveyance, it is more likely to perish in the de pots than to be conveyed to any places front which it can inter fere with the trade of this country. The cost of conveying it to Dantzie would he equal to the price for which it would sell, and the shorter but more hazardous distance to Odessa would lead to a nutrket there, lower than even that of Dautzie. The produce of these two provinces wa4 never large, and luet only found its way to the sea-shore when very high prices have enabled it to' hear the expenee and risk of conveying it thither. The whole stock of wheat may be now brought into one point; and appar as follows : Pomerania • 67,103 Quartets. Dantsie and Ming 361,500 Lubeck . . 29,900 Conjectural: Denmark . . •Rostock and Wismar 458,503 25,000 25,000 Petersburg!), Riga, and Memel 100,000 In ports in the North Sen, as ascertained Hainburgh Bremen Total 609,503 105,000 27,970 741,473 Quarters. Of the wheat to which we have referred, as accumulated in the several ports, I was assured nearly one-fourth part is of so had a quality, as to find no market in this country, except in seasons of uncommon dearth. If, then, out of the whole 741,413 quar ters, 556,330 quarters were to be sent to England, it would not be more than the consumption of tea days. The provinces, forming since the adjustment of territory, at the termination of the late war, a part of the Prussian Monarchy, which have access to the Baltic sea, comprehend. East Prussia, West Prussia, and Pomerania. They appear by the' official ac counts (see Appendix, No. 10), to have exported 447,188 quar ters of wheat, and 1,218,916 quarters of rye, barley, and oats, beyond their own growth, In the last nine years, up to the end of 1824 ; exclusive of the year 1818, the returns of which, for East Prussia, are wanting, but which probably were 350,000 quarters of Wheat, and 800,000 quarters of the other grains. It is 'possible that some portion of this quantity may have been produced in the internal contiguous provinces of Posen, Silesia, and Brandenburg. As the trade in corn, between one province and another is free in Prussia, there are no official accounts by which we can ascertain whether what is exported by sea is the produce of the province from which it is shipped, or of some in land district. As the special object of attention pointed out by myltistruc tions, was the state of the countries front which corn had been ex ported to Englaud, I shall„therefore, in representing the state of the agriculture, confute 'icy observations chiefly to the three mari time provinces before mentioned, but including in souse degree the province of Brandenburg. Before the year 1801, the landed estates in Prussia, as in most other parts of Europe, were in the possession of large proprietors. Many of them could only be held by such us were of noble birth .; and the merchant, the manufacture•, or the artisan, however much money he might have accumulated, could not invest it in such land until he had obtained a patent of nobility. These restric tions were removed by the King, about the year 1807, when the French had over-run the country. A tenantry in our sense of the term was then, as it still is, al moat unknown. The land was worked by a elas of persons in some respects slaves, and in most respects but little removed from that condition. In many cases they had an hereditary kind of .right to some use of the land, such as to grow one crop of corn according to a prescribed course, whilst the lord had the right of pasture between the crops. These peasants were sold with the land, or descended to the heir, and were bound to perform certain labour or services for the lord. They could not, on the other hand, be dismissed from their holdings, nor had their superior any power over the property they might happen to be able to ac cumulate. • The conditions upon which the peasant* held their portions of land were very various, some having a greater, and others a less share of the use of them; some doing greater and others less ser vice for them. By a series of legislative measures, marked by a character of peculiar boldness, which were enacted from 1807 to 1811, the whole of the enslaved peasants have become converted into free men and freeholders. In some cases the holdings have been equally divided, and the peasant Las his moiety in perpetuity. In cases where the lords claim for personal services were more exten sive, the peasant had a smaller share in the land. In Some in stances, compensations in money were settled by compact between the lords and the peasants, sometimes by the payinent of a fixed sum, or by a security on the land allotted in perpetuity to the peasant, for the payment of such stnn. Sometimes the peasant retained the whole of the land he had before used, paying .to the lord the value of that portion which might othe►wise have been given up to him. The iiuccessive measures by which the peasants were raised to the rank of freemen were not received by all with equal readiness. The lords were compelled, but the peasants were allowed to de cline compliance; anti even to the present day some few prefer the ancient mode of their holdings to that which the laws have al lowed. Although the foundation is laid for a new and better order of things:, yet its effeets on the agriculture of the country have not hitherto been fully realized. The abolition of personal services, and of beteditary ownership of such services, has been too regent for the full operation of the change of the parties, from the rela tion of master and slave, to that of employer and employed, to pro duct- the effect which is its natural tendency. It is obvious, that all the operations of agriculture are still performed by thelabourera, with the listlessness and slovenly indolence which was natural to their former character, and which their new condithwt hay not yet had time to remove. Tho land in the three maritime provinces, as indeed in altresit the whole of Prussia, may be considered as either in very large, portions belonging to the nobility, or to the new class of pro prietors; or as very small portions. such ua under the ancient system wee deemed sufficient for half the maintenance of the fa mily of a peasant. There are but very kW of that middle class of capitalists, resembling our fanners, who can hire land to that extent, which mitt able man can most advantageously manage, and after-stocking and working it, pay for the hire to the pro prietor. With some few ettetptions, and those very few, no rent it paid, but each occupier, whether a Loge or small one, is Ws own landlord. The deviations from this general view are to be found, for the most part, on the hanks of the great rivers, where meadows, supply eithe of large to fortheg purpose near 6fr the 4tei'll:ig cattle, or of saving hay fo r th e mouths of these rivers, are let to temints for money rents. On the banks of the Oder, near Stettin, I stiw BMW meadows let at Itts. to 11. s. per acre, the landlords paying the land-tax. They are said to yield about one ton and a half annually of hay, when mowed. The after-feed is worth little, f rom t h e ear ly floods in autumn, and the deep snows and seve re frosts hi winter. The hay is not very g oo d, which is a tt r ib u t e d to the great quickness of the growth, after the frosts disappear. Land of this description is of less r latiye value than with us, from the sc..vere cold and its long duratioli, from therebeing scarcely any THE LAST BUT ONE. I,IQWIFT and CO. beg leave to remind the Public K, that Lotteries are near their conclusion in this Country, and that SIX Prizes of 21,0001. are to be distributed by the Drawing of WEDNESDAY NEXT, 3d of MAY, which is the Last Opportunity but One of acquiring so large a Sum of Money by a very small adventure. SWIFT and Co.'s Offices have been fortunate in the sale of Capital Prizes, particularly TWO of 30,0001. and TWO of 20,0001. within the last few Months.—No. 11, Poultry, No.l, Strand, adjoining Northum berland House, and 31, Aldgate High-street. ItISH , t The Last Man" who can ever have the honour, singly as Contractor, to submit a Lottery to the British Public has been more than usually anxious to render this his Las ' t Scheme worthy then. approval. Government h a vi ng arranged the Last Lottery of all to be taken by the Office-keepers who usually bid for a Lottery, and tietermined that BISIPS FAREWELL CONTRACT, Being the, very Last Lottery but One that can ever be offer et' must be all decided NEXT WEDNESDAY, (3d MAY). BISH entreats his " best friends," the Public, to be early lb their application for Tickets and Shares, to partake of the SIX PRIZES of £21,000, &c. &c. forming an aggregate of N 337,000 I, ALL TO BE DECIDED IN ONE DAY, NEXT WEDNESDAY, 13d MAY). Tickets and Shares are selling at lIISHIS, the Contractor's, Offices, No. 4, Cornhill, and 9, Charing-Cross, and by his Agents in all the principal Cities and Towns of the United Ittngdom. 111[511'8 GREAT LUCK !—The tide of success continues to flow uninterrupedly to BISH'S Offices —every drawing affords him the gratification of announcing that a very large portion or all the Prizes hays been sold by him. In the Lotter/ just ended, he Shared and Sold several Capitals including TWO PRIZES of £20,000 each, • • 7,340 Class 10,004 Cl ass aPA A., Prize £20,000 I • RC of ln the previous LoaA.VO,OOO ery, which .was all drawn 6th December TWO BISH sold of iC30,000 And in the Lott er y immediately preceding, drawn on t h e 18th October East, BTSH Sold THREE of 420,000 And within the last Eleven Months, BISH sold FIVE £3O 000 and ELEVEN X 20,000 ! BILIOUS AND LIVER COMPLAINTS. 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Lets, Chemists, 4, Cheapside, corner of St. Paul's, London ; 84, Sa ekville-street, Dublin • and 73, Princes-seet, Edin. burgh I soory and Co. 136, New Bond.street, and 220, le. gent-street ; and by the principal Medicine Venders through. out the United Kingdom. • Nal. The Os. Boxes heretofore sold are discontinued, and the 43. fiti. substituted in their place, by which a considerable *eying will arise to the consumer. AUTOMATA, ANCIENT ARMOUR., IN FANTINE ARITHMETICIAN, GIANT, &c.-- GOTHIC HALL 7, HAYMARKET. The celebrated MUSICAL and other . AUTOMATA, dis playing, in a great variety of subjects, from the most elegant Human Figure down to the smallest Ards and Insects, the as tonishing powers of Mechanism, by their wonderful imitations of animated Nature; together with the bitoice COLLEC TION of ANCIENT ARMOUR surrounding the Hall.— Also, the INFANTINE ARITHMETICIAN, only Six Years of age, gifted with the astonishing faculty of solving arithmetical questions, without the use of either pen or pencil, or even a knowledge of the numerals themselves. This highly interesting child uniformly details the method pursued by him in arriving at the solution of the proposed questions —Admit. tance, 2s. ; Children, Is. All;o, the surprising GIANT, Monsieur LOUIS, the tallest Man who bas visited this Kingdom since the days of O'Brien, end far superior in elegant symmetry, proportion, and muscu lar strength. Monsieur bouts (who is 25 years of age, pos sessing all the polite and agreeable manners of his coon tr y men), will gratify his Visitors with a sight of his favourite Horse Nonpareil, being the smallest in the World.—Admit tance, Is. *..The Child will be attended , to the Residences of the Na l:snit), and Gent*. . JDEAN FASHIONABLE and MILL • TARY TAILOR, 421, STRAND, LONDON, te. spect folly apprizes Gentlemen and Tradesmen, that his Stock of cLOTI-IS and CASSIMERES are of the hest West of En g h w d, Spanish, and Saxon Manufacture, which his plan of Cash Pikes will enable him to offer the Public at the fol. inwing very low Rates; at the same time pledging himself to have every article of the best Workmanship, and cut in the most Pashionable Style, viz.:— £. s. d. .C. 6. d. Snperfine Coat in Colours • 2 14 o to 3 0 0 Superfine Ditto, Blue or Ilkek 2 IR 0— 3 3 0 Ditto Ditto, best Sax ,, ny Wool do. 8 8 0— 3 12 0 Superfine Great Coat or Frock, in Colours 3 0 0 3 10 0 Ditto do. faced with Silk - 8 8 0 3 16 0 Milled Kerseymete Tronsers • t 5 0— 1 8 0 Toilinet and Valentia Waistcoats 0 ie 0 0 14 0 Black or Buff Kersey IVaistcoats ' 0 13 o—. 0 15 0 White 111arcclics Waioconts • 0 13 0— 0 15 0 A Suit of Livery Complete • • 4 10 0 J. D. submits to Gentlemen who contract by the Year the following low Terms :- 6 Suits • c3o if, 0I 4 Suits , 420 0 0 5 Ditto 26 0 01 8 Ditto - Id 0 0 _ . The Left•aff Clothes must be returned. Ladies' Habits a nd*Pelisses Plain or Elegantly Braided.— Yfiung Gentlemen's or Children's Dresses, Fancy or Plain, on the lowest possible Terms.—Gentlemen's Cantlet Cloaks kept on hand for the conreniency of Gentlemen travelling.— Regimentals and Naval Uniforms to Regulation.—Export Orders executed at 2i per cent. upon (lost Price. Three doors from Bedford-street rCLARK'S GENERAL OUTFITTING • WAREHOUSE, for the EAST and WEST IN. DIES and SOUTH AMERICA, EXETER CHANGE, STRAND. • • Officers., Cadets, and Writers going to India, and Gentle mvn proceeding to South America, or any other part of the Globe will find in this Establishment the whole of their Mili tary 4pointments, Swords, Chaos, Sashes, Belts, Pistols, Sz.t... together with a large and w e ll- ma n u f a ctured stock of Sea Cots, Couches, and Bedding; Cabin IVash-hand 'fables, Chairs, and Lamps ; Sea Chests, Mule and Bullock Trunks, and every other description of Travelling Equipage. AN ASSORTMENT OF CANTEENS, ready fitted with the necessary requisites for India, and other tropical climates : likewise a great variety of Silver and Plated Articles, Knives and Forks, suitable for families going abroad ; Military and Hindostanee Books, Maps, &c. A FA SHIONA IX STOCK of Carriage, Curricle, Tan dem, Phaeton, Stanhope and Chaise HARNESS, with every description of Saddlery, &c. &c. for home use, East and 'West Indies, and South America, which merit inspection from their excellent quality, first stile of workmanship, and moderate prices. All the Articles its this Establishment are warranted, and the excellent plan of fifty years standing is still stric t ly a dh ere d to; of asking b u t one Ready Money Price, from which no abate ment will be made. CHEVALIER PT.TSPINTI'S MEDICINES. THE CHEVALIER. RUSPINI begs to inform t.lbelr N. Charlesobility,, Ble G u c t ntz 4, ,and the Public, th a t h e has ap pointedCheer:lde. Agent for the sale of his Medicines, viz. the Dentrifice and Tincture for beautify ing and preserving the Teeth and Gums, and fastening those Teeth that arc loose ; his Elixir for curing the Toothache, and the Balsamic Styptic for stopping all Bleedings, external and internal. They are now prepared by the CHEVALIER, from the original Receipts of his Father. Sold by Butlers', Chemist, 4, Cheapside, Corner of Saint Paul's, London ; 54, SaCkville-street, Dublin; and 73, Princes street, Edinbur g h ; Smyth an d Nephew. Perfumers, New Bond-street; and the principal Medicine Venders throughout the United Kingdom. 111 . 11 The above Metlicides cannot be Genuine unless the Name of the Chevalier J. B. Ruspini is engraved on the Go. vernment Stamp which is attached to each Bottle. THE ARMY. Detachments belonging to the 68th, 70th, and 76th Regiments of Infantry, embarked on the 24th instant, on board the Pannelia transport, at Portsmouth, for Quebec. The same transport after wards sailed for Jersey and Guernsey, for the purpose of re ceiving on board other detachments for conveyance to the above destination. The 98th Regiment of Foot has completed its augmentation establishment. ...... The 3d Regiment' of Infantry (the Buffs) has been placed on the Indian Establishment. REMARKABLE ESCAPE.—A. young man, in the employ of Mr. E. Wilson, miller, on Beverley Westwood, fell from the top of the mill, on Wednesday last, a height of about thirty six feet, without sustaining any injury except some bruises, from which no serious consequences arc expected. What renders his escape more remarkable is, that he fell amongst a quantity of stones. _ Last week, a fisherman belonging to Arbroath caught a very large cod. It measured 4f feet long, 2 feet 4 .inches round a little below the neck, and weighed 54 lb. When opened, there were found four haddocks and a flounder in its stomach. COACII PROPELLED WITHOUT HORSES OR SrzAst.—On Wednesday morning, the Cambrian coach, while standing at the..door of the Bear Inn, Cowbridge, disencumbered froth horses, passengers, &c. was suddenly impelled most rapidly forward by a sudden gust of wind. The direction it took was for Mr. Godfrey's shop window, in which numerous articles of glass and jewellery were exhibited. Mr. Godfrey was behind his counter at the time, and seeing the couch approaching, as if by magic, rushed out to learn the cause. His panic bein g very great, he lost his presence of mind, and had it not been for the prompt interposition of a gentleman of the name of Price, who rushed forward and averted the pole from the direction of Mr. Godfrey's body, it would perhaps have been attended with fatal results. The Coach had so much impetus, that Mr. Price was knocked down in his endeavours to save Mr. Godfrey. A trial of considerable interest came on at. the Cir euit Court of Justiciary at Perth, before Lord Pitinilly, on Thursday last, when David Payout. was convicted of the mur der of h is wife, on the 21st of December, by stabbing her to the heart with a butcher's knife. It appeared in evidence that the panel had been much attached to the deceased, but had latterly become jealous of her attentions to a person named M 4 Leod, which instigated him to the fatal deed. He at first pleaded guilty, and was with difficulty induced to retract his plea. The fact was completely established, and the Jury found him guilty, but recommended him to mercy; which recommendation his Lord ship promised to transmit to a proper quarter. In the mean tinie sentence of death and public dissection was passed upon the unhappy criminal, to take plate at Dundee on the 2d of June. The prisoner hoard his doom with much apparent resig nation. , 1; PRICE SEvENrEwcr,.. of the interval of flpring, and from the great drought and excessive heat df the short suminer 1 was informed, that similar higher on the Oder, near the cities of Schwet, Custrin anti Frant fort, was let at nearly the sante rate. Lands in the vicinity of the large towns, amid in other siniations, from local convenience may be sometimes let for money rent, but these are exceptions to the general plan, and the Whole of such land bears hut a very small proportion to that whichis cultivated by its owners. The doniains of. the („mown are differently circunistaticed from other land, and are let to farmers. The greatest part is in the occupation of persons whose inlet:eters had long held them at low rents, without their being charged to the lubd tax on Orana Steller. When by new la*m the taxation on land was extended to the estates of noble, those of the croWti *ere included, and charged with the tax. At first the high prices which corn bore enabled the occupiers to pay the trifling rent, as well as the tax, but as corn declined in price, they became unable to pity both. 'the taxes were in most instatices paid, but the rent was suffered to rim in arrear, from the impossibility of extracting it from the tenants. I was informed by a very intelligent gentleman, who had sufficient means of information, that most of the occupies of the royal domains, whoie rent Was ten years in arrears, had beet* forgiveo the whole, on promiSing to Make the payments regular. ly in future—a promiSe they ant in' 'general nimble ,to fulfil, from the great additional fall in the price of corn which has Since taken place. The national domains are of such Varioue qUalitiet, and in suck different localities, that it is difficult to find what is the average rent of them per acre. Sonic of them are let as high as 3s. Bd. per acre, u much larger proportion at ls. 2d., and a larger still from 6d. to 9d. As far as My means of information can enable me to form a judgment, I should not estimate the average refit to exceed, if it reachtsi, les 3d. per acre. 'the farm at Subbowitz, whose produce is noticed in the Appendic, No. 11, which is con sidered fair average land, consists Of about 1,720 acres, and is let for 1581: 12s. 7d. sterling per year. That of Subkati (also no-, tited in the same statement) consisting of 3,054; . acres, is some of the best laud, the rent of which is about 5521. 1 ls. Bd. sterling per annum. _ _ these two farmA, with the others noticed in the same paper; are occupied by some of the most skilful cultivators of the district ; and yet the accounts show, that sn ail as the rent is, and judicious as the management may be, the produce falls shni of the cost of production, even though the rent • should be giVen up. Although die Loyal domains are here noticed, they bear si small proportion to the whole land in the province of West Prussia, where they are situated, not exceeding- one sixtieth part of the whole. The value of land generally is low, as tnay be inferred from the low price d produce, and of rents for what little ie rented.--' An estate of medium soil was put up to auction, and not prog ducing an offer equal to the sum for which it was mortgaged, was taken, by the mortgagee. The extent is about 0000 mot , : gens, or about 4,200 acres. It is chiefly a thin sandy soil, in some few parts approaching to loam. The principal and in terest due to the mortgagee Was 30001., for which silni he took the estate. The barns and other teneittents were in need of some repairs, and the land far from being id 'a clean state. On taking possession, as he could not let it, he had, and calculated to expend, as he told me, betwixt 2,200/. AllO 2,300/. to repair the tenements, and to stock it with 1,500 Merino sheep, 4ei cows, and with bullocks, horses, and the requisite impletukts. This gentleman, who had acquired his money by trade, and knew how to cultivate, hoped, by the fleeces of his fine-wooled sheep, to draw some interest for the investment he had been aompalled to make in land. In the same part of Prussia, another estate, one of the best in the district, with a good house, with all the buildings in good re pair, and the land in a high' state of cultivation, was offered for sale, and though when I was there, the sale was not completed, I had reason to, believe an agreement for it Ye ould speedily be con.i eluded. The soil is good sandy loam, chiefly arable, with some pasture the extent 2,600 acres. The price, at which I believe the con tract to have been since made, was between 5,200/ and 5,4001. If these two instances may be taken, as nearly the highest and the lowest price of the average arable land of the maritime pro vinces of Preasia, the highest limit will be bomewitat.res‘ tract 40s. the acre, and the lowest not quite 15e. per acre. This esti=• motion of the value of land, if correct, in the maritime provinces, cannot be extended to the ether parts of the Prussian dominions, where both the soil and climate are far more . favourable to pro- . duction. It is well known in England, that under a great de-• pression in the price of corn, the podrer lands cutler a mtichEreater proportionate depreciation in their vale price than the more fertile soils. It is not then extraordinary, that the landed property of these maritime provinces should be reduced to the low value which is here represented. This tract of land, forming the maritime provinces of Prussiai is a portion of that vast sandy plain which extends from the idiom of Holland to the extremity of Asiatic Russia. It has scarcely any elevation that merit the title of hills, and where not covered with woods, spread out in open fields of groat extent. The soil in some places is barren sand, occasionally with no appearance of vegetation; in many parts with no attempt at cultivation, and what is cultivated appearing to yield but scanty turns. Theland is too poor to yield even middling crops, with= out manure, and the portion of cattle of all kinds, is too small to create such a quantity of that necessary ingredient in hus bandry, as to keep the land up to its present low standard of fertility. According to the official documents, which I collected, it ap.. pears that the three maritime provinces of East Prussia, West Prussia,.and Pomerania, including in the latter the late Swedish: territory, contain about 25,500,000 acres, or more than half the extent of England. By an of f icial account, made uP in 1821, the stock of cattle appeared to be as follows, ut the latter end of the year 1819; viz.,---556,889 horses and colts; 1,1/1,484' oxen, cows and calves; 2,049,801 sheep end lambs; and 60,819 swine. The lowest estimate of the stock of cattle in England, which have ever met with, gives three times this cumber of horses, and more than four times the number of cows and sheep to the same extent of And ; and most of those who have calculated on the subject, have carried the proportion of cattle to surface in Eng land much higher. I hail reason to believe, though not from official sources, that the number of sheep, between 1810 and 1824, has increased at the rate of from 20 to 25 per cent., and that th.'":,'oportion of fine-woolled sheep, to those of marse wool, had been augmented beyond that proportion. From this deficient stock of the animals, front which inw-. cure is derived, it will naturally be inferred, that the increase of grain must be very small. I was satisfied, from my own obser vations, and it was confirmed by the opinion of the intelligent na tive►, that much of the bind in cultivation► could not yield on the average snore than threetimes as much corn as the seed that hod been sown. The calculations Made by the Most infelligent statistical in quirers, and the most observing cultivators, have not estimated: the average increase of the four kinds of grain, viz. wheat, rye; barley, and outs, taken togethei, to be More than four times the seed. The general course tifctiltivation is to fallow every third year,.. by plat ping three times, when dettigned 14 rye, or live times if intended for wheat, and allowing the land to test without any crop' during the whole of the year, froutine autumn to the next. Most of the land is deemed to be unfiefbr the growth of wheat, , under any circumstances. Where it is deentedada t Ito that pgrain, as intuit us can he immured, from their scanty supply of that article, is sownwith whe a t, and the remainder, of th e tallow ground with rye. The ptrtion which is destined fen' wheat, even itt the beet , faint, is Elms very, small ; antifita, on many rains is sown, the whole of the land devoted to *heat tines not aitimint to one-tenth of that on which iYe its grown. I have Melon to Islit:Ve, that of late years the prOportion of rye to wh ea t h as been browsing. The first is a.ll algid° °I domottic cousl n n p t l on and of univer 1 deinund ; the tar great er number o f th e i n h a bi tants ea t only 1.11.60 outdo fivin it front necessity, and th o s e w h o can athtill. wheaten bread , tut counnonfy th a t of rye front choiee. At the tables of the first families, both i n G ermany an d though wheaten bread' 44 wu always t o b e seen , I remar k e d that the natives scarcely ever tasted it; and I have met man)* have given. the preference to bread' (to Ii residence in thos e . e ou ntrla s tit: C ONTINUED.) of rye. • Englialuno aft e long